Fever fall to the Aces in the WNBA playoffs<\/a> in three games, was actually booed while picking rival Iowa State to beat West Virginia. <\/p>\nShe more than made up for it by selecting Iowa to upset Ohio State.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys know who I\u2019m picking,\u201d Clark said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have Julian Sayin rattled today. Stadium\u2019s gonna go crazy, everyone better be loud. I\u2019m going Hawkeyes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pat McAfee apologizes to Caitlin Clark while going shirtless in front of her on \u201cCollege GameDay.\u201d X\/PatMcAfeeShow<\/p>\n
Pat McAfee apologizes to Caitlin Clark while going shirtless in front of her on \u201cCollege GameDay.\u201d X\/PatMcAfeeShow<\/p>\n
Then it was McAfee\u2019s turn to make a selection, and the former Colts punter and current ESPN megastar did not disappoint. <\/p>\n
He took off his blue blazer, ripped off his shirt to go bare-chested in front of Clark. It was a bit of a struggle as McAfee\u2019s cuffs got stuck on his wrist, forcing him to take a little more time to finish the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaitlin, I apologize to be like this in front of you,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when it calls, it calls. The football Gods have called for me to get shirtless in front of these fantastic people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then went on to pick Ohio State to win the day\u2019s marquee contest,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m gonna put my shirt back on, walk over to Kinnick and watch the Ohio State Buckeyes get a huge win,\u201d McAfee said. \u201cThere\u2019s no way the Buckeyes lose two games in the first five weeks. I love Iowa, I still think there\u2019s a road to the playoffs\u2026 but today it\u2019s O-H-I-O! I love you Caitlin, you\u2019re the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pat McAfee listens to Caitlin Clark during a live broadcast of ESPN\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Pat McAfee apologizes to Caitlin Clark while going shirtless in front of her on \u201cCollege GameDay.\u201d X\/PatMcAfeeShow<\/p>\n
Clark, who skipped Fever exit interviews to do the show, took the whole ordeal in stride, not seeming to mind McAfee\u2019s antics much.<\/p>\n
The Fever season ended with a 94-83 loss to the Aces on Thursday night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee wasn\u2019t shy around Caitlin Clark but did apologize for his actions to the Indiana Fever star.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1760,1607,352,13427,349,1776,3145,99,1625,3015],"class_list":["post-870663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-college-football","tag-espn","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-nfl","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-pat-mcafee","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}